Olivier Giroud has already taken to Twitter to admit his role in the woeful Arsenal performance against Liverpool today - and he has been joined by another Gunners stalwart.

Arsenal were thoroughly whooped by Liverpool - who went 4-0 up after just 19 minutes - and one of the players who did not cover himself in glory was Per Mertesacker.

This game represented the first occasion Arsenal have lost when Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny played 90 minutes together in the Premier League - and neither performed well.

They struggled with the pace of the dynamic Liverpool attack - with Luis Suarez, Raheem Sterling, Daniel Sturridge and Philippe Coutinho running the Arsenal defence ragged for the majority of the game.

Mertesacker has taken to Twitter to offer his sincere apologies to Arsenal fans after the defeat:

sorry guys, this was a bad day for the whole team. No we have to stand together in the defeat and get our heads sorted again.

Mathew Nash

I’m Mathew Nash a 27 year old graduate in Sports Studies and I have an insatiable love for sport. With a particularly keen interest for the madcap world of football I have always been known amongst friends as a beacon for bizarre sporting trivia and knowledge. My other passion is for writing and hopefully combining the two will create a superb and entertaining marriage that will create, divide and share opinion.Mathew is a correspondent for the NextGen Series, Ligue 1 and Primeira Liga.